please stand up for regular san francisco like me. >> supervisor peskin: thank you ms. malone. >>[applause] >> supervisor peskin: i want to it knowledge your bravery and leadership in appearing on the nbc bay area investigative units exposé on the abuses of short-term rental such as you experience. that was a i think, a helpful piece of public information and you did a public service in doing that. next speaker, please. >> testifier: jennifer-i think you know we are very supportive of this legislation already. i've even become friends with the apartment association staff while crafting this legislation. so, i think that is significant and shows the broad support we have. i know that air b&b set up an e-mail generator to expand and it was a very bizarre e-mail that said hosts would have to count all the forks in their houses and

was no mention that this legislation is retargeted at the platforms themselves. it also didn't state the we know changes for current hosts. so if b&b continues to feed us lies and hide behind it hosts and this legislation will actually be good for the legitimate house is oh, cut out the bad actors. help more hosts will rise up and told the company to stop using them like ponds. i have a anecdote. we posted on our facebook page of a picture of a flyer that was posted in san francisco's chinatown those critical of air b&b. we normally get like 3000 views if were lucky. this 1.6 million views. there's 10,000 comments on it. went around the work it was all the comments were negative against air b&b

ready my point is, the whole world is watching you guys today. i hope you use your discretion and finally pass meaningful enforcement. >> supervisor peskin: thanks. i'm delighted this matter brought the tenants and landlords and the hotel owners and hotel workers together. next speaker, please. >> testifier: good morning. thank you for this legislation did my name is tessa wilborn long-term san francisco resident. we love our visitors, ut we need to have taxes paid by appropriate parties. websites sold merchandise for a long time before state sales taxes were imposed on them. it's not fair to brick-and-mortar businesses to have sales taxes apply to them but not to where businesses. this analogy here. the san francisco can use all the money it can get and i would also like to point out this legislation only affects website host platforms, not individual hosts. who managed

to find on their way to use the computer to put on their listing all kinds of photos and other things. but another key issue for me is the loss of rentals. three fourths of the affordable housing that-well let me start over. so, we have an a for the housing crisis. we build units, but we are seeing housing units to the addictions, to no-fault evictions, to use by short-term rentals. three fourths, if we can never build our way out of the afford the housing crisis if people continue to remove housing that could be rentals did so, please, support this legislation and get the income for our city that we need an police the web. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thanks. after the next speaker, [calling names]

>> testifier: good morning. teresa philanderer. thank you so much supervisor campos and supervisor peskin for bringing this to my for creating this. it sounds like we can finally say, if you want to do business here in san francisco any and all platforms, you have to follow the law. you cannot do false advertising of it illegal units if people have not registered. as a staff member of senior disability action, i also speak for the seniors who i know have lost their homes in those homes have indeed become short-term rentals. i've only to think of the 22 units that are still being used as vacation rentals in my neighborhood. we are actually talking about one block, 22 units, and those are free of the buildings were there had

been [inaudible] seven years ago and this is a way to bring in the platform to hold them accountable and to stop our seniors from being evicted for greed and so, i want to really support this and i hope everyone will support this. this is so important to our communities, to our city, to maintain neighbors and neighborhoods. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. >> testifier: good morning, supervise. i'm marla night. i'm cochair of north beach tenants committed to living in north beach i have seen firsthand what's happening in our neighborhoods. being converted from residential that would into a commercial neighborhood, without any change in zoning. units as ms.-said, are being used entirely for short-term rentals. 75% of these are

illegal, and very big money is being made we urge the committee to support this wonderful legislation can i am so happy it's been put forth. we need to enforce our current legislation and air b&b and other platforms need to stop hiding behind registered hosts who are doing the right thing. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> testifier: mr. chairman, members of the committee, my name is alex rosenthal. and second vice chair of the san francisco democratic party. and registered hosts. i agree that

commercial landlords using the hosting site illegally are a problem the city and home share in committee need to do more to work together to stop the abuses and to get folks to register. but it also needs to become much easier to register now to share my experience with you to illustrate. my job at a technology company became unstable run august of last year so i thought about ways to make sure i could pay my mortgage in september. i thought about renting out my extra room. i knew there was a registration process and i looked into it and i saw required a lot of work. got to make an appointment to meet with the opposite short-term rental housing, present with several documents to show your listing is a primary residence and you also did a business license. before i did any of this stuff, though, i didn't know if i would like doing it if i want to rent out my room has some insight about inviting strangers into my house did so i spent a few weeks cleaning and organizing and i posted the room and i two different guests were lovely people. was a positive experience for me so i made my appointment with the opposite short-term rental housing in order to register.

it took two months to get my permits. there was a problem with the treasurer's office website so i could not get my business license. personally met with to give all my documentation with the office could not get in touch with her. it was relatively onerous. i think this is fair to say that an extension is fairly common. folks are not to go through this process until they try using the service once or twice. requiring registration from day one will affect what killed the service in san francisco. if the registration remas as difficult as it is today. unless-so i've also a third of the entire homes is on air b&b are rented out for 14 nights over the last year. if you're only renting out your place within two weeks a year, you not understand two months registered. i'd urge you to consider a grace period for house and registered. >> supervisor peskin: supervisor campos >> supervisor campos: at the beginning of your comments you a device so as the democratic party get are you speak on behalf of the san francisco

democratic party as an individual or capacity? i want make sure this is the party speaking >> testifier: i'm speaking as an individual but i ran out of time to say that san francisco democratic party did pass a resolution supporting the concept of this legislation last week. however, they can recommend to be a three-month grace period for hosts the buses become easier to register. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> testifier: good morning. my name is pam we. i'm speaking here in support of the legislation. i'm speaking here because we feel very strongly that it's important to be able to keep my neighbors, my friends, my peers who are teachers in san francisco. i feel that this legislation will be able to protect them from being pushed out because of the

practices of air b&b. this is very personal to me. i live in the richmond district, where the rates of eviction is going up, and have investigated this, and i want to thank the legislative analysis that verified for me that the rates of reduction has been correlated about were corresponding, to the listing of air b&b in our neighborhood. so, i feel that with 82% of these listings not following the law, not being registered, is really important in terms of leveling the playing field. but this is very personal for me because my possessions in my parents garage of two-my friends so possessions are there. being stored because they been pushed out. they used to live in rooms that they could rent because they had previously been

pushed out by gentrification. the air b&b trends, they were pushed out of those rental units. one now is living with her mother out of state. the other person is still looking for a place, but this is real stories. did the bill just go off? okay. for me, this is -okay. i'm in favor of the legislation and let everybody played by the law in him here to fight to protect rental units. >>[applause] >> supervisor peskin: next speaker, please. then, [calling names] >> testifier: hello. my name is sun to help one. i'm a property owner in san francisco

and him leasing my property to a tenant. i had left san francisco to take care of my mother in pennsylvania. about a year ago, without my permission, my tenant began renting that property on air b&b and i returned to san francisco to take care of the issue. as the owner of the property, i have been found in violation and being signed for $85 a day while concurrently spending money on costly eviction process. meanwhile, my tenant is earning twice what he pays him rent from the air b&b rentals and faces no consequences from the current short-term rental law. item being held accountable and find for the illegal acts of my

tenants. yet, i am doing everything i can to [inaudible]. the city is put me in an untenable situation. supervisor breed, i been in contact with samantha rojas in your office regarding my situation. i need your help. i need it now. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you next speaker, please. >> testifier: hi. laura clark. i think i don't like your b&b. but i don't like hotels either. if i never have to state that another best western ever again in my entire life, but kevin, thank you. but if we hate hotels, if we hate air b&b, then let's do the

straightforward thing and raise the taxes on those facilities could if we think that the city is swamped with too many taurus then let's just do the street thing and raise taxes on those things. i think that what we have done here is created a cumbersome process for getting registered and then yelling at people for not getting registered. if we want people to actually register, if we want the system to function, we need to make the process for becoming legal easier, seamless, and not the kind of long story there were hearing from people were trying to get legal, people running for office and are trying to get legal are struggling through this bureaucratic nightmare that is frankly clearly designed to this incentivize their b&b. we all know why we made this process cumbersome. it's because we don't actually want people to be registered. additionally, the more difficult you make this process of getting registered, the more you are selecting for individuals who are doing this as their main source of income.

not people who are doing this for one or two nights a week. you are doing this for people decided that this is their main source of income that is why they're going to devote months to the process of getting registered. so, streamline this process. don't just drop the hammer on the people who are struggling to get registered. i agree that we need to address the problem that this woman brought up her she's the landlord and she's getting punished for the bad actions of her tenant. that is terrible. we need to fix that, but this legislation doesn't really solve a problem. this just adds another hammer to the problem. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> testifier: hi. my name is cynthia funk with housing rights committee of san francisco. i live in district 9. i'm very grateful for the work that my supervisor is doing. my landlord is in him. i actually really love my landlord wow. my work is primarily interested one and i want to share some of the response expenses were having in that

district. we need the city to be able to enforce existing law when you got to happen now. it's urgent. in the communicating process by engaging in in the richmond, we are hearing all types of stories about folks just walking with her committee moves up and down. and comments and folks can actually point out that unit was of this is easily a no being used six units of them are short-term rentals folks know it and it's destroying the fabric in our community. it's really problematic. that's what we need house hosting platforms like your b&b. that's only limited to air b&b. it's my understanding it's for all hosting platforms. we need corporate responsibility now. was actually looking at air b&b listings of this morning. i saw couple in the richmond. $675 per night for two bedroom, one bath at $3500 for luxury house

rental. $7000 for a gorgeous single-family home. i'm looking at these rentals that are instant bookable and think about all the family second attribute in those units. we are in housing prices. it's time for common sense legislation. this only allows the city to enforce existing legislation. this does not impact when boards for folks trying to rent out their units. so homeowners in san francisco were already following this lot were nothing to worry about. we need to fix the burdensome process that folks are expensive, that is true but we also need to make the existing desertion enforceable. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> testifier: my name is jan felt it on the redshirt house in district 8 and reading a letter from a host in district 11. please, oppose supervisor campos on sharing order to bring all the parties to the

table to find rational legal sounding solutions. this year supervisor elections may well have much to do with the direction of the city over the next years and many vital issues of its future is a great place to get one of those is affordable housing. differences of opinion on how to make san francisco housing more fordable are evident among members of the current board. whatever the effect of the proposed law short-term rentals it appears obvious the timing of the proposal recognizes wishes to circumvent the possibilities that the next word they do things differently from campos and others on the board. there's much more at stake here than a few hundred units that could arguably be returned to the long-term housing market at the cost of increased bureaucracy, increase it would akamai, increased confusion and increase her rosman of homeowners. except if the moment the purpose of supervisor campos's proposal at the study, i support strong regulation that protects housing for residents and hold real estate speculators for using the system. i believe all

platforms can step forward and do more 12 the city. while believing adequate affordable housing the city will require changes in june with supply and demand that far exceeds the life of any platform to significantly affect. and i firmly believe the city needs to simplify the process. particularly for those who rent space out just a few days or weeks are you. i greatly welcome attempt by the city develop a one-stop online registration process for host. the ever-changing rules and new regulatory requirement only confuse the process more including the newest rule that hosts create an inventory write-down to silverware reported to yet another city agency could nobody seems to agree on the details of this latest bit of complexity. the legally questionable proposal will only lead to more confusion and frustration. post residents and regulators. it needlessly tramples online protection act conflicts with federal law. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for your comments. [calling

names] >> testifier: i am being mauled and i am with 10 years in the city. this is the first, speaking. i have [inaudible] in bayview now in district 5. i'm a registered host and it was quite difficult to register. i have a foreign name that is not part of the english alphabet and i had to go several times back and forth with the registration to dbi, before i was eventually successful in registering. regarding the

unruly guests that have been mentioned now more than one time, i feel that the long-term tenants in our building, in the next-door building, there sometimes also the out-of-town guests and some of them don't understand the concept why only people who can afford to help them, [inaudible] can come to this town would not be low rentals. i think the legislation is if enacted [inaudible] it was confirmed november of last year. by majority of the citizens here in san francisco. when as an argument by supervisor campos

corporate responsibility and good citizenship as mentioned which i highly support, at least your b&b is paying taxes. i think before they're forced to do that. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. >> testifier: don't overdo eight >> supervisor peskin: thank you, sir. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> testifier: >> testifier: good morning. my name is elizabeth frommer. here we go again. a decimal little tired of, down to city hall. but, it's clear when enforcement of an short-term rental laws are not working. 8/10 are not registered. that's

kind of wholesale disregard for laws is sort of rivals probation. you must have to wonder why that is. probably, the externally high cost of rents and housing. but, i was the first person to register in this process. i've a certificate number one. >> supervisor peskin: we saw you on the nbc piece. >> testifier: thank you. did you like the dog? he was the homey touch. i continue to comply with this ever-growing list of requirements, and now, three city agencies are involved in this is just to rent a spare room that i have to supplement my social security which of course leads to more stable neighborhoods in aging in place for a lot of seniors.

i would like to support these proposals because short-term rentals have completely gotten out of hand. the majority are legal and american shooting to a housing shortage, but i like the idea of corporate responsibility. without them we have no environment protections we would have to continue to fight every day for those. but i also agreed a lot of people spoken to this, the process needs to be made easier. registration should be easier. a sort of question the 571-r, personal business property tax requirements. perhaps you could create an agency like a citizens advisory council and task force. we've got people in the texas initiative we can do something about this. >> testifier: thank you. next speaker, please. and afterward, public comment [calling name

>> testifier: good morning. peter: >> supervisor cohen: here to strongly support the legislation. good to see it coming for. i was almost like misnomer. we would then have total one & compliance in this whole enforcement fiasco would not be good for us. the budget was later analyst report made clear that we do have a lack of compliance and have very weak enforcement system. it was another report that came out almost in the same breath from our planning department called a housing balance report, i don't want to be lost on us. this is a continuous track of how much affordable and market rate housing we are producing but also how many existing portable units we are losing. the control unit being taken out of print control to various speculative means. what's fascinating to boil down, but every four units affore